New 24.10 installation... ZFS or LVM ? (I will use encryption)

Tue Jan 21 14:24:06 UTC 2025

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 at 05:29, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:

> Thanks! For some reason, I get errors for volumes it tries to mount as ZFS at boot time. I don't get them in LVM. :(

On general principles, I'd have a small unencrypted `/boot` partition
with your kernel in it on ext4, and then make the _rest_ of the disk a
big ZFS pool, maybe with a dataset for `/home`.

> But I like encryption. Basically the whole volume is encrypted... So no problem if somebody takes your machine, they can't access anything in it...

https://xkcd.com/538/

Read the tooltip.

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